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Early Primitive Elvish

lese

root. collect

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “collect” with derivatives like ᴱQ. lese- “come together, gather” and ᴱQ. lesta “gathering, assembly” (QL/53). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. lest “gathering, assembly, concourse, moot” and G. lesta- “gather, assemble, meet” (GL/53). There are no clear indications of this root in Tolkien’s later writings, where Tolkien seems to have shifted to ᴹ√KHOTH “gather”, but it is possible that ᴹQ. lesta “measure” from Fíriel’s Song of the 1930s is connected to this early root.

Derivatives

  • ᴱ✶gwa·lē·st·a
    • G. glest “moot, gathering, concourse, assembly” ✧ GL/39
  • Eq. lese- “to come together, gather (intr.)” ✧ QL/053
  • Eq. lesta “gathering, assembly” ✧ QL/053
  • Eq. lesta- “to collect (tr.)” ✧ QL/053
  • G. lest “gathering, assembly, concourse, moot”
  • G. lesta- “to gather, assemble, meet (intr.)”
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/053] Group: Eldamo. Published by